{"id":25850,"date":"2018-05-01T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25850"},"modified":"2018-05-01T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T02:25:44","slug":"st-johns-shaughnessy-imposters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-johns-shaughnessy-imposters\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, Imposters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Diocese of New Westminster ejected the thriving congregation of St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, it lost a source of income.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy has been costing the diocese of New Westminster around $20,000 per month to stay afloat. It\u2019s so empty that its own staff have declared that it <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-new-westminster\/st-johns-shaughnessy-is-like-a-mausoleum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resembles a mausoleum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it has had to resort to unusual measures to fill its coffers.<\/p>\n<p>Since the building was hijacked by the diocese, populated with a pretend congregation and the whole enterprise belongs to the Anglican Church of Canada, an organisation devoted to imitating a Christian denomination, what more fitting way to raise some cash than rent the church to a TV production crew making a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imposters_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV series<\/a> called \u201cImposters\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a clip where one of the villains is marching through the church for \u201cthe money grab\u201d. Just like the offering at a Sunday service:<\/p>\n\r\n\t<!-- Begin Video.js -->\r\n\t<video id=\"example_video_id_142140321\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" controls preload=\"none\" data-setup='[]'>\r\n\t\t<source src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Clip1b.mp4\" type='video\/mp4' \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/video>\r\n\t<!-- End Video.js -->\r\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is a clip with the church van being used as a getaway vehicle:<\/p>\n\r\n\t<!-- Begin Video.js -->\r\n\t<video id=\"example_video_id_1801614755\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" controls preload=\"none\" data-setup='[]'>\r\n\t\t<source src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Clip2b.mp4\" type='video\/mp4' \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/video>\r\n\t<!-- End Video.js -->\r\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought the rector was very realistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Diocese of New Westminster ejected the thriving congregation of St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, it lost a source of income. Consequently, St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy has been costing the diocese of New Westminster around $20,000 per month to stay afloat. It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-johns-shaughnessy-imposters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[1461],"class_list":["post-25850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-st-johns-shaughnessy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}